1856 in architecture
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The year 1856 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures
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=Buildings opened=
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- February – State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Joseph Reed{{cite web|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/tulk-augustus-henry-4756|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|access-date=2015-03-03|title=Tulk, Augustus Henry (1810–1873)|first=C. A.|last=McCallum|year=1976}}
- May 15 – Rumeli Feneri, Istanbul, Turkey{{cite web|url=http://www.rumelifeneri.com/Forum.asp?forum=oku&msgid=854|publisher=Rumelifeneri|title=Rumelifeneri|language=Turkish|access-date=2010-06-06|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715212809/https://www.rumelifeneri.com/Forum.asp?forum=oku&msgid=854|archive-date=2011-07-15}}
- August 31 – The Esztergom Basilica in Hungary, designed by Pál Kühnel and József Hild (consecrated)
- October 4 – Lindau Lighthouse, Bavaria
- November 1 – Stamford Water Street railway station in Lincolnshire, England, designed by William Hurst{{cite book|first=Gordon |last=Biddle|title=Britain's Historic Railway Buildings: an Oxford Gazetteer of Structures and Sites|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2003|isbn=0-19-866247-5}}
=Buildings completed=
- Debating chambers of Parliament House, Melbourne, Australia, designed by General Charles Pasley
- Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Landherrnamt, Bremen, Germany, designed by Alexander Schröder in the Neo-Romanesque style{{WP-HB LfD|0292|Database Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Bremen}} Landherrnamt & St.-Johannis-Schule {{in lang|de}}
- Walnut Hall, Toronto, Canada, designed by John Tully as O'Donohoe Row (demolished 2007){{cite news|last=Kyonka|first=Nick|title=Historic building dies of neglect|work=Toronto Star|date=2007-05-20}}
Events
- Future English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy is apprenticed to architect James Hicks in Dorchester, Dorset.
Awards
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – William Tite.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Edmond Guillaume.
Births
- January 7 – Sydney Mitchell, Scottish architect (died 1930)
- January 21 – Gustaf Nyström, Finnish architect (died 1917)
- February 12 – Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Dutch architect (died 1934)
- August 5 – Axel Berg, Danish architect (died 1929)
- September 3 – Louis Sullivan, American architect, "father of skyscrapers"Kaufman, Mervyn D. (1969). Father of Skyscrapers: A Biography of Louis Sullivan. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. (died 1924)
- September 23 – John Bilson, English architect and architectural historian (died 1943)
- October 30 – Edward Prioleau Warren, English architect (died 1937)
- December 20 – Reginald Blomfield, English architect (died 1942)
- date unknown – Eugène Vallin, French architect, furniture designer and manufacturer (died 1922)
Deaths
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- March 20 – Robert Reid, King's architect and surveyor for Scotland from 1827 to 1839 (born 1774){{cite web|url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=201279|title=Robert Reid|work=Dictionary of Scottish Architects|access-date=2015-03-03}}
- March 27 – David Laing, British architect (born 1774){{cite book|authorlink=Howard Colvin|last=Colvin|first=H. M.|year=1997|title=A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840|isbn=0-300-07207-4}}